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THE BOOK OF<br/>
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PSALM 144
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David blesses the Lord for deliverance and temporal prosperity—Happy is that people whose God is the Lord.
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<center><span class='small'>A PSALM OF DAVID.</span></center>
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Blessed</span> <i>be</i> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> my strength, which teacheth my hands to <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/144/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Sam. 22: 35 (32-36).">war</a>, <i>and</i> my fingers to fight:
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My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and <i>he</i> in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.
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Lord</span>, what <i>is</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/144/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Job 7: 17 (17-18); Ps. 8: 4 (1-9).">man</a>, that thou takest knowledge of him!  <i>or</i> the son of man, that thou makest account of him!
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Man is like to <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/144/4a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Vanity.">vanity</a>: his days <i>are</i> as a <sup>b</sup><a href="ps/144/4b" mark="b" type="A" title="1 Chr. 29: 15; Ps. 102: 11; Jacob 7: 26.">shadow</a> that passeth away.
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Bow thy heavens, O <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
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Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
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Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/144/7a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB alien.">strange</a> children;
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Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand <i>is</i> a right hand of <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/144/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 44: 20.">falsehood</a>.
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I will <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/144/9a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Singing.">sing</a> a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery <i>and</i> an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.
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<i>It is he</i> that giveth <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/144/10a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR victory.">salvation</a> unto kings: who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword.
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Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/144/11a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Vanity.">vanity</a>, and their right hand <i>is</i> a right hand of falsehood:
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That our sons <i>may be</i> as plants grown up in their youth; <i>that</i> our daughters <i>may be</i> as corner stones, polished <i>after</i> the similitude of a palace:
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<i>That</i> our garners <i>may be</i> full, affording all manner of store: <i>that</i> our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:
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<i>That</i> our oxen <i>may be</i> strong to labour; <i>that there be </i>no breaking in, nor going out; that <i>there be</i> no complaining in our streets.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="ps/144/15a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Abundant Life; TG Happiness.">Happy</a> <i>is that</i> people, that is in such a case: <i>yea, </i>happy <i>is that</i> people, whose God <i>is</i> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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